I’ve skimmed through some Singapore’s road guidelines and driver’s handbook and didn’t find any particular significance of kerb paining, from the context I inferred that striped kerb is painted that way just to be visually distinct, to be noticeable. Significant markings are made on the road alongside the kerb, like those two yellow stripes mean “no parking at all times”.
My guess is that it makes it easier for drivers to detect bends in the road, as the stripes are painted at equal widths, so you can visually tell in your peripheral vision when the road is starting to slope a corner.
Since at least some legitimate answers are already in, I will just say that I’ve noticed this as well from playing GeoGuessr, and it is definitely limited to only a few countries, I believe mostly in SEA.
They actually made it worse in the latest version! They went from using the CSS2 standard, which was already like 20 years old, to using MS Word as the rendering engine. I would like to find whoever was in charge of that idea and slap them with a large trout. My guess is that they got a bonus by laying off whatever team was in charge of the CSS2 integration and saved a bunch of money by utilizing another program attached to some other team’s budget. MS employees are always trying to shift their costs onto other teams.
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